On 6/11/06, Oskar Sigvardsson
<oskarsigvardsson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
How much money are we talking though? As we all
know, wikimedia ain't
the richest organisation in the world, we are barely scraping by. And
a solid legal defense can be very expensive.
The legal fees in question would probably simply amount to someone
going through the paperwork to get a restraining order etc, small time
stuff.
This fund sounds like a nice idea in theory, but it would need a lot
of scoping first - exactly who is covered, to what extent, at whose
discretion, for what period of time, etc. You're basically talking
about Wikipedia becoming an unfunded insurance policy. Perhaps the
people who are covered by it would have to chip in, say $20 a year or
so?
The serious nutcases don't pay attention to restraining orders..
$20.00 a year would be cheap compared to the cost of private medical
insurance, which can easily be 100 times that much.
Ec